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Is there a limit for transaction size?
Wow this is such an interesting question! TL;DR: the transaction size limit, at the time of writing, is about 780kB (about 3 million gas). But read on.
There is no direct or fixed limit, neither for ...
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how to estimate gas cost?
Using Truffle and testrpc. It's actually pretty easy to build a development environment and test different use cases.
For the gas estimation, it's mostly based on Web3 native functions:
You can ...
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How to clear large arrays without blowing the gas limit?
The best way is simply not to clear them. In many (most?) situations, the array varies in size over time, and emptied slots will eventually be filled again. Instead of shortening the array, keep a ...
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Are gas limit in transaction and block gas limit different?
Yes. Each transaction has a gas limit. For example, there could be 5 unmined transactions where each has a gas limit of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. The block gas limit determines how many transactions can ...
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Can a contract's internal storage keep increasing forever?
Yes, a contract has infinite internal storage.
But there are 2 limits to practicality: gas costs and the block gas limit.
Gas costs are discussed in:
Is there anything stopping me from using the ...
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Why was Frontier's "default" gasLimit = 3141592?
This is referred to as a "Nothing up my sleeve number" which is common practice for security / cryptography based software.
From Wikipedia:
In cryptography, nothing up my sleeve numbers are any ...
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Is there a limit for transaction size?
As of 12/08/2017, the gas limit as detailed on EthStats.net is 6,700,314.
The gas limit was 'stuck' at 4.7 million. It was recommended that miners change their settings such that the gas limit could ...
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Execution of Fallback function with more 2300 gas
I was confused by this questions and self answer, so I will try to clarify.
The OP sent 1,000,000 gas to a smart contract from an external account. He/she incorrectly read the Solidity documentation ...
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How growing contract storage increases the gas spending?
Stored data is stored entirely in the state. None of the storage needs to be loaded into VM memory in order to execute transactions on the contract, other than those entries that your contract ...
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Does Gas Limit have any bearing on transaction/mining time?
Yes, a transaction's gas limit can have an effect on the time it takes to get mined into a block.
Larger gas limits can be more enticing to miners since their potential fee is gas limit * gas price. ...
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How do you calculate gas limit for transaction with data in Ethereum?
According to Ethereum Yellow Paper, in order to calculate gas limit for transaction with non-zero data you will need to use the following formula:
gasLimit = Gtransaction + Gtxdatanonzero × ...
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If view or pure function doesn't cost any gas, would they be abused/free ride?
pure and view functions only are "free" when you call them externally, as in you call that function by itself and run the calculation on your node. So if you had a function that returned "1+1", yes ...
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How do I get `gasLimit` in web3?
Asking for the last block mined, it will return the gasLimit of the block
https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API#web3ethgetblock
var block = web3.eth.getBlock("latest");
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Error: "The contract code couldn't be stored, please check your gas limit"
How did you get the bytecode? Does it have the '0x' at the beginning?
Can you try adding the '0x' when submitting the transaction?
.deploy({ data: '0x' + bytecode, arguments: ['Hi there!'] })
If ...
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If view or pure function doesn't cost any gas, would they be abused/free ride?
Just to add to @Shawn's good answer.
Yes, you can abuse them. But as the pure and view computations are performed only on your own node you would only hurt your own node. You would not hurt the ...
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How to increase gas limit in block using geth?
While it's advised to not alter a chain's gas limit once created, it may become necessary to fiddle with the gas limit of an existing private blockchain, especially during development.
On geth, this ...
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how to estimate gas cost?
The answer provided by Greg Jeanmart perfectly explained how to estimate the gas cost for a function. Here I want to point out that the design of your function giveAwayDividend() might be vulnerable ...
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Gas consumption of a view public function
You don't pay gas when calling a view function. This doesn't change the fact it still has operations to do, which have costs, and thus are subject to the upper-bound gas limit on the block, as well as ...
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Solidity Exceeds block gas limit during Mocha Tests with Ganache-cli
The error message
"n: Exceeds block gas limit"
means your transaction has declared a gas value greater that the maximum allowed in the network. A client will reject such transaction.
With ganache-...
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Does using a very high gas limit somehow get your transactions executed slower?
In short: It's exactly as you suspect, a higher gas limit means your transaction is less likely to be included by miners.
The reasoning: miners seek to maximize their profit within each block. Calls ...
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What happens when I send a transaction that exceeds the gas limit of 3,141,592?
The target block gas limit was PI million, but was increased to 1.5 PI million (4,712,388) in Homestead.
If you exceed the limit, in Geth, you will get error "Exceeds block gas limit" and the ...
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How Geth and Parity knows the global gas limit?
The block gasLimit is in each block. Example:
eth.getBlock(1500000)
{
difficulty: 34982465665323,
extraData: "0xd783010305844765746887676f312e352e31856c696e7578",
gasLimit: 4712388,
...
}
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How come I need to specify a higher gasLimit than estimateGas?
I believe in some cases cumulativeGasUsed is not accurate due to spending gas / refunding gas. If at any point the contract gets above the gasLimit, it will fail with an Out of Gas exception. If a ...
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How come I need to specify a higher gasLimit than estimateGas?
You don't.
You can specify the gas exactly and it should go through just fine. The only gotcha is that if the contract state changes that you're executing against, and it would require more gas than ...
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How to increase gas limit in block using geth?
Short answer
Can't or shouldn't.
Better answer
The block gaslimit is a property of the network. If you're using a private chain you can fiddle with it in the genesis block. On a real blockchain, ...
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Gas limit of a contract method call
When an externally owned account (EOA) signs a transaction, their client will usually estimate the gas requirement and provide enough to make it work. This doesn't always work out as expected.
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Is there a gas limit for view requests?
If you are calling this from an external account (using web3 or similar) then there is no gas cost associated because the function is view and is resolved in the node you are connected to. On the ...
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Private chain: Maximum size of "data" field in an Ethereum transaction?
In genesis.json you can set the block gas limit and then see How can I stop the block gas limit on a private chain dropping to the public chain default?
Does it mean that I can transfer any amount ...
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Why was Frontier's "default" gasLimit = 3141592?
In addition to the answer explaining nothing up my sleeve number of pi million, it's worth to add that the gas limit is not set in stone.
As the yellow paper equations describe the gas limit can ...
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For higher priority would it be a good idea to send a transaction with highest gasPrice?
Don't confuse gas value with gasprice.
web3.eth.sendTransaction({/* ... */,gas: 99570000 , gasPrice: 12345});
Miners will Prioritize the transactions with a higher gas price not a gas value (how ...
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